Drifted R for #3 and looped to find the right pit (+60s). A bit low for #5, +20s. Planned to follow an earth bank S to a pond attackpoint for #8, but drifted L and failed to find either, ended up thrashing about in green, realised what I'd done when I saw I was too close to the open area to the E (+2:30). Pretty thick forest made slow going for #8, #9, #10, #11.

Followed the earth bank for #12 which should've been at the end of it (described as junction of two earth banks) but when I got there, there was a RAFO runner already looping to find it. Eventually we located the control in the wrong place, 100m E, at the junction of two ditches! (+4:00, game over). In the download queue I found if you were on blue you'd have approached from the E and found it OK, will be interesting to see it on routegadget.

After that, not too bad. Stuck in brambles/stream exiting #17, and a bit unsure of path junctions on the way to #19.

Numerous indistinct thickets and all the minor paths hidden under fallen leaves made this quite a technical challenge for a Saturday Series.

Didn't turn far enough L out of #6 for #7, missed the minor path I had to cross too, had to loop back. Cautious approach to #13 hidden behind a rootstock, although I was right on line. Messed up #14 - driven too far R by the undergrowth (should've gone L) and relocated off the open area above it after looping to check another control (not mine). Hopeless to #17 - jinked too far R off the open area above and had to fight windblown branches down the marked ditch to the control. Then S instead of SW to find a big path and left myself too much uphill for #18. Poor.